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The economy had a positive growth of 5.6%.
At the end of 2012, the copper price reached an average of US$ 361 cents per pound, lower than the 2011 average of US$ 399.7 cents per pound.
The total authorized foreign direct investment (FDI) channeled through DL 600 reached an historic record of US$ 16,770 million.
Chile consolidates as the best credit risk rated country of Latin America.
The estimated annual average unemployment rate reached 6.4% and the annual average inflation during 2012 was 3.0%.
Tax reform was passed during third quarter 2012.

Record results but it’s clear the game has changed for the mining industry
Revenues for the world’s 40 largest miners leapt 32% to a record $435 billion, driven by surging commodity prices and a 5% increase in production output in 2010.The strong top-line result catapulted the miners’ net profits to an impressive $110 billion – a 156% increase over the previous year, according to a new report from PwC, Mine: The game has changed.

Growth re-imagined: Prospects in emerging markets.
In the last quarter of 2010, we set out to uncover how are CEOs approaching growth, during a time when sustainable economic growth appeared far from assured. We surveyed 1,201 business leaders in 69 countries around the globe.

We are pleased to share with you the results of the seventh edition of the PricewaterhouseCoopers South America CEO Survey, in connection with the 13th edition of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global CEO Survey. If we were to select one aspect arising from the current survey, which we believe deserves the highest degree of attention on the part of those stakeholders, for whom the advance of progress and welfare in the region is of vital concern, we would single out the roles of the State and the respective Governments.

The world economy has been consuming the carbon budget required to limit warming to two degrees more quickly than modelled targets for 2020 and 2050 allow. In order to address this carbon debt, keeping atmospheric concentrations of carbon below 450 ppm, the world economy faces the challenge of decarbonising between 2008 and 2020 at more than four times the actual rate of carbon intensity reduction achieved globally since 2000.